Comcast Business Gateway

[ng12345]

Our office just switched to comcast for internet service (from verizon), and I can't figure out how to get the router/modem they provided (with their software) to stop acting like a router and for it to be a simple modem

I have a linksys wrt54g behind it and I want that to take over all the routing functions.

Anyone know how to do this?

currently the comcast router is serving up an address in 10.x.x.x to the linksys router which is then serving ips to the computers in 192.x.x.x

The comcast interface doesn't have an option to act only as a modem (that I could see); there is a way to disable dhcp, but it would still be acting as the gateway (and not the linksys).

 

[ng12345]

Anyone have an idea on how to do this?

basically i want the comcast router (SMC8013WG) to only be a modem, and the linksys to route

 

[spidey07]

What did comcast say when you called them?

 

[hiromizu]

Did you call Comcast?

 

[yuppiejr]

DP... (double post, not the other DP)

 

[yuppiejr]

I just had business service installed and requested they deploy a modem only solution since I am throwing a ClarkConnect 4.2 box behind it to take care of firewall / proxy / web filtering duties on our public WLAN. Why don't you call them and have them swap the gateway/router they provided with a standard modem or just pick up your own DLink DCM-202, Toshiba PCX-2500 or Motorola 5120 and call them to associate it's MAC address with your account?

 

[DaddyGrant]

+1 All you have to do is call them and tell them to turn you device into a bridge. We did it at my company no problem.